These are the books I finished reading in April.  As always, library books are marked with an asterisk. The Brutal Telling , Louise Penny* The Shadow House , Anna Downes. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close , Jonathan Safran Foer. Bury Your Dead , Louise Penny. I'm still enjoying the Three Pines mysteries by Louise Penny.  I don't have any of the books in my pile at the moment, but I am keeping an eye out for the next one in the series each time I'm in a library. I bought The Shadow House for 25 cents. It was fine. I had also purchased Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close for 25 cents--twice!--at the same thrift store as The Shadow House .  It was also fine.  I'd been curious about it for a while and finally read it and now both copies are in my garage sale pile.  That's how I found the second copies.  My crafting group at church is having a garage sale fundraiser and my contributions are mostly some old paperbacks and a lamp.  They cleaned out ...